Jack Smith’s New Indictment Against Donald Trump

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Special counsel Jack Smith announced a new superseding indictment against Donald Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election, despite losing a Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity earlier this year. The case won’t go to trial before November, but what does the indictment mean for the election campaign and prospects for a trial in 2025? Plus, Kamala Harris has her first sit-down interview since becoming the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee; will it also be her last? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.4	slash Wall Street. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal
0:21.3	this is Potomac Watch.
0:24.8	Special Counsel Jack Smith issues a new indictment against Donald Trump for seeking
0:30.4	to overturn the 2020 election following the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential
0:36.1	immunity. How much did the special counsel rewrite the charges and what will be the impact on the presidential race.
0:45.0	Plus Kamala Harris will sit down for her first extended interview
0:49.0	since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.
0:53.4	Will it be her last interview until election day?
0:56.8	Welcome, I'm Paul as you go with the Wall Street Journal
0:59.8	editorial page.
1:00.7	I'm the editor and here is our daily Potomac Watch podcast. I'm here today with my colleagues Kyle Peterson and Bill McGurn. Political and legal analysts extraordinary.
1:13.2	Kyle, let's first get to this Jacksmith
1:16.8	superseding indictment as it's called.
1:19.9	You've read the document, as have I. how different is it from the first one well let me
1:25.2	start with the size the original was 45 pages and had four crimes and laid out a
1:31.5	pretty sweeping narrative on Donald Trump's conduct in trying to overturn the 2020 election.
1:36.5	The superseding indictment is 36 pages, so it's nine pages shorter.
1:41.2	It includes the same for alleged crimes. And the main thing
1:46.1	that Jack Smith has done in my mind is take out some of Trump's conversations
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